As a master flash on-camera the V850II and TT600 can provide remote manual power control only, of other slave V850II / TT600, and numerous other hotshoe flashes and larger strobes in Godox’s 2.4GHz system.

(No TTL or HSS can be communicated to the slave flashes with V850II / TT600 as master).

So whether a master flash or transmitter unit is used on camera, the V850II can be fired and controlled in a remote manual and HSS environment, combined with a range of different Godox portable and studio strobes.

And with no AA batteries required at all in the strobes if desired.

The V850II provide a 2.5mm sync port, as well as a 4 pin communication port for attaching XTR-16s / FTR-16s receivers.

Original V850 flashes can be combined in the current 2.4GHz system by attaching XTR-16s receivers to those.

(Note – HSS mode must be switched on and off manual directly on the flash with original V850 strobes).

godox Ving proprietary is one of the worse battery quality out there, i own the Ving V850 before and it gets bloated on normal usage(used only once or twice per weekend) within 5 months time frame, bought a replacement for it which were told it’s the 2nd version which they claimed to hve addressed the easily bloated battery issue, still encounter the same thing within 4 months of purchase, i gave up and switch to TT600, and couldn’t be happier since.

The problem with the batteries is that people like to complain a lot: things are either too expensive or do not have the right build quality. And as soon as one of these issues is solved, the other one becomes troublesome. Canon will charge you 50$ for a LP E6 charger and over 60$ for a LP E6 battery. That is over 100$ for a 2 cell system of lesser capacity. Godox will sell you a whole flash with built in radio system and battery + charger for around that money. Of course something is going to be cheaply made and I am glad that is not the flash.
If Godox made a good quality charger + battery and sold it for 150$, would anyone buy it?

I somehow missed this. I have had 2 of these battery that I got new from Cheetahstand in May of 2014 when I bought the org V860 and V850 from Edward. Also 2 Godox batteries since Oct 2014 and all four of these batteries are still going strong and still charge to 100% for work in my new Cheetah V860X.
I have sold off my older Cheetah V860,V850 and am super excited to finally being able to pick up a pair of the new V850ii from Adorama to go with my new V860X I go last month from Cheetahstand.

Will these flashes accept the FTR-16s receivers? I understand that you cannot do TTL with them, but I find the 433 MHz trigger system about 5-10x as reliable as the 2 GHz system in actual use (based on some 10,000 shots in varying environments).

That is at least some good news Elv. Lets hope for some improvements on an already very good line of flashes.

I know I could just spend 50 dollars more for the Godox version, but as you say $99.00 and a 1 year warranty is pretty hard to pass up. So I will wait and I still have my V860X as a main so its not like I am flashless 🙂

I have the original V850’s. On a wedding I’d like to use a (nikon) TTL flash on camera and still use a couple of V850’s off camera. That’s why I bought the X1t-n. Since it has a hotshoe on top of it, I can attach it between the camera (D750) and the TTL-flash.

Apparently the X1Tn is 2.4Ghz, and the original V850 receivers (xtr16s) are on 433 mHz. I bought the receivers for 2.4GHz and mounted them on the V850, but nothing happened… I can’t seem to trigger the flash. Anyone any idea what I’m doing wrong?

Ok I have been using a pair of v 850 for three consecutive wedding seasons on more than 120 weddings that is and although I have dropped them a few times each had their base cracked they are still going strong ! Yes I have had my good share of initial battery problems that pissed me off but after this much usage I m definitely going to add a couple of more of those in my arsenal. Really great quality construction awesome little bastArds 🙂
Most highly recommended

As usual, I’m coming back to your website for the treasure-trove of info that it is 🙂

Question: is the power set at time of trigger, or time of power change? Asking because I want to be able to have 4 master cameras with X1n transmitters controlling the same V850ii’s at DIFFERENT power levels, simultaneously.

I read that in your article, but others have said different, but I trust you more 😉 Thanks for confirming my worries Elvis 🙁 Another question: does the V860iiN fired as a manual-powered remote flash also receive signal at time of power change, or at time of trigger?

Sorry no I don’t really know. If you haven’t already done it though, you might want to try updating the transmitter to the latest firmware, as its possible the receivers may have lost compatibility in some firmware releases (as has happened with the Canon transmitter previously).

Other than that I’m not really sure. Double check the group dial is correct and that the channels are selected correctly. They should be set just the same as your old receivers though.

I used two of these flashes yesterday at an event, controlled by a TT685N on camera. For a few minutes I didn’t need the two manual flashes on stands, so I set their power to “off” in the master flash.

Later, I went to turn them back on again, and even though I could change the power of their group in the master flash, the manual flashes wouldn’t fire. Tried turning off and on, adjusting power directly on the manual flashes, nothing worked. Any ideas?? I’m so bummed out because they worked great when I first set them up.

Hi, folks! does anybody have my same problem?
I recently purchased a flash point r2 Speedlight (GODOX – V850II) and the flashpoint r2 radio (GODOX – X1-C) and they rock!!! except for one thing 🙁
Once I put the r2 radio on top of my camera (canon 6d) and then my canon 430 ex ii speedlight on top of the r2 radio the canon focus assist light won’t work, the only assist light that works on this setup is the one of the r2 radio.
Has a wedding photographer for me it is important to use the focus assist light from my canon flash because it is more reliable than the one from the r2 radio.

I used to do a similar setup with yongnuo radios and it worked fine you can mount a 622 radio on your camera and then a flash and not only your on camera flash assist light works also the one from the 622c radio so you have two assist lights.

Just wanted to chime in here – I bought 4 of the V850-II and set them up in my normal space for testing. First of all, I use the 433 MHz trigger system because it has always been more reliable in the venues where I shoot. The old FTR-16s receivers work great with the new strobes, as expected. While they aren’t as long range as the new 2.4 GHz system, they can still reach well over 30m with excellent reliability – more than I need.

One thing to be aware of is that you can clip on the FTR-16s receivers and switch between them and the 2.4 GHz internal system via the strobe menus. No need to remove them unless you want to.

I’m getting ready to test out the Li-ion batteries this week, but all of them arrived in fine working shape and I charged them to at least 12.6V right out of the box. How nice not to have to put separate batteries in the triggers; one less thing to worry about. The Yongnuo triggers I used to use definitely get flaky when the batteries are low, and their “low battery” indicator has never worked on any of my YN-622 transceivers.

I have 4x V850II’s and 3x AD600BM Manuals. I’d like to trigger all 7 with remote power control.. I know the X1 transmitter only lets me control up to 5 groups, but the XT32 lets you control about 20 groups.

Problem is, the v850II only seems to show 5 (A/B/C/D/E). Is there a way to enable the others?

I enjoyed using V850II in addtion to V850.
The other day, the receiver function did not work.
Then, I turned off the wireless function of V850II and attached FTR-16S.
FTR-16S then works as it does on V850.

I wonder how to recover receiver function of V850II while FTR-16S helps me

Just bought this, and it seems that with the Godox V850II speedlite (Flashpoint Li-On Flash) you have to manually turn on the AF assist beam and then wait for it to turn off (appearing in any shots you take with slow shutter speed or high ISO). It DOES NOT simply work when you depress the AF button like most flashes. You can only set it to turn off 10, 20 or 30 seconds after you take the shot (how weird!!!). This doesn’t work with event photography at all! Just bought the flash and couldn’t believe it. Total deal breaker for anyone shooting events in low light I would think….correct me if I’m not understanding how to get the AF beam to work like every other flash I’ve ever owned LOL.